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Premium Transcon Bonus Mile Offers from American and United

Both American Airlines and United are offering up to 15,000 bonus award miles for each paid roundtrip on premium transcontinental nonstop flights between New York’s JFK airport and Los Angeles (AA and UA) or San Francisco (UA only). Besides American excluding San Francisco, both offers are effectively the same where tickets purchased for travel January…

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Did You Win 3 Turkish Airlines Amenity Kits?

Thanks to everyone who entered my amenity kit giveaway consisting of three Turkish Airlines economy class kits. It’s great to know that basically all of you would like to see some type of kit and/or amenities offered in coach on more airlines for long-haul travel. Maybe they’re listening? 😉 The trusty random number generator picked…

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Targeted? Up to 30% Off Purchased United MileagePlus Miles

I received the following email from United MileagePlus this morning, offering up to 30% off purchased award miles. While there’s no language stating this offer is exclusive to the email recipient, it does provide a special link that is hard-coded with my MileagePlus information. And since there’s no ability to change the populated MileagePlus number…

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I Won a United ’30 Days of Friendly’ Giveaway… Can You Use It?

In case you haven’t heard, United Airlines is running a daily Twitter promotion highlighting its new “Flyer Friendly†ad campaign that resurrects the “Fly the Friendly Skies†slogan. I posted about it last week when it was introduced, and it’s basically 30 days of random giveaways mostly focused on prizes redeemable in hub cities (at…

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Did You Win a Free Gogo In-Flight Wi-Fi Pass?

Thanks to everyone who entered to win a free Gogo inflight Wi-Fi session. The trusty random number generator selected commenter #35 as the winner. Congrats to Jamie M! I’ll email you momentarily for confirmation. – Follow Darren Booth on Twitter, @FrequentlyFlyin, for more airline, hotel and travel industry news, reviews and opinions. Related: Enter to…

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United Airlines Launches ’30 Days of Friendly’ With Giveaways

Earlier this week, United teased on Twitter about something “friendly†coming today. Many people were speculating it was going to be the rollout of United’s anticipated new website, or perhaps even a Boeing 787 Dreamliner painted in the classic Saul Bass colors. But it doesn’t appear either of those things are happening today, when at…

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Update: United MileagePlus Buy Miles Bonus Now at 60 Percent

I posted about United’s “People Power†MileagePlus promotion on Tuesday, where members can earn up to a 60 percent bonus on purchased miles depending on how many participate in the program. More than 1,500 members have bought miles through the dedicated link, so the maximum bonus of 60 percent will apply to everyone. The offer…

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United Offers 3-Day 30-60 Percent Bonus on Purchased Miles

United Airlines today launched a new MileagePlus “People Power†purchased miles promotion (phew… that’s a lot of “Psâ€), where you can earn a 30-60 percent bonus when buying miles. The actual bonus amount depends on how many members participate via the dedicated link. Here’s how it works: Each participating member will receive a minimum 30…

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Hilton Launches Third Quarter 2013 ‘Triple Your Trip’ Promotion

Hilton HHonors (finally) released their third quarter 2013 promotion. It’s not super exciting, but it will allow you to accrue additional points for stays any day of the week. Click here to register for your July 9 – September 30, 2013 stays. You’ll earn triple points on weekend nights (Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) and double…

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Limited Time Chase Ink Offers for Small Business Week

[Edited June 24, 2013: The limited time offers described below are no longer available.] Chase is supporting Small Business Week through June 22, 2013 with limited-time offers on its popular Ink business cards. I wrote previously how the Ink Plus® Business Card is among My Top 3 Travel Credit Cards for airline and hotel redemptions,…

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